Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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